Sentences with phrase «by the corruption cases»
An effort by Governor Andrew Cuomo to cap the outside pay of state legislators this year failed to gain any traction, despite the scrutiny raised by the corruption cases of Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
http://spectrumlocalnews.com/ Not exact matches
LONDON, May 3 - Ukraine's new corruption court, whose creation is a key condition set by Western aid donors, should be ready to hear its first cases early next year, General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said.
Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.
According to Adam Sarhan, CEO of Sarhan Capital, China «is shooting [itself] in the foot» by engaging in «a textbook case of corruption and manipulation.»
College basketball corruption case by fed.
Extraneous influences Malami, however, said in tackling the corruption cases, the Federal Government would not be assuaged by what he called «extraneous influences» or action by available prima facie evidence.
Recent scandals involving the movement of individuals between government and the private sector — such as the cases of Geoff Hoon and Andy Coulson — have highlighted the corruption vulnerabilities left open by the current system.
The guilty verdict in the case of Joe Percoco was coupled with not guilty results for two prominent upstate developers who had also been accused of corruption and bribery by federal prosecutors.
In places with extraordinary corruption and criminality, mandatory vote could help in cases where people are prevented from voting by criminals with association with some party or candidate.
The case study demonstrates that the preferred methods of democratic accountability in Rwanda involve responsiveness by the centralised powers to their citizens to solve technocratic problems like corruption, not politically trickier issues of compensation.
As he did in the wake of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's sentencing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a brief statement in response to the five year sentence handed down by a federal judge in the corruption case of ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
He is, however, the founder and leader of ONF — an organization that is largely untainted so far by the cases, and allegations, of corruption that have plagued UR.
Raise of the corruption and favoritism, in some nations is common to see that government workers, and officers aren't chosen by their education or skills, they are pointed because their party's militancy or in some cases because their are family members of a high government officer.
One can certainly point out that after the Skelos and Silver convictions the definition of the law known as «Honest Services Fraud» was greatly narrowed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
In Albany on Monday, some state lawmakers were disappointed to see Bharara leave, worried some of this more prominent and ongoing corruption cases may fall by the wayside.
The NPP presidential candidate, further explained that the Special Prosecutor, would be established by Act of Parliament, to be independent of the executive, and to possess «an exclusive remit to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political office holders and politicians.»
Ex-NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks is among a slew of current and former ex-cops named by the feds as «unindicted co-conspirators» in a pending police corruption case.
But other common practices in southern Europe, like turning public office into a livelihood by living off public resources indefinitely, appointing incompetent people to public positions, or shamelessly benefiting from the undemocratic functioning of political parties, are cases of serious corruption too.
They also say the indictment crafted by Bharara created a phony aura of corruption by pooling unrelated charges and defendants into one large case.
The Second Circuit found that a new Supreme Court decision narrowing public corruption laws in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell required different instructions than those used by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni.
PRESS RELEASE: Citing the growing number of cases of political corruption and abuse of power in the State Capitol, Republican State Senate candidate Juan Reyes of Queens today called for decisive action by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The criminal case grew out of a public corruption investigation by the FBI and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau.
The roundtable will assess the on - going fight against corruption, and is expected to come up with key programme agenda for among others mobilising Nigerians to get involved in the fight against corruption, and agenda for increasing the tempo of the anti-corruption fight including by revisiting outstanding cases of high - level official corruption and prosecuting high - ranking public officials.
«This case is about corruption and greed at the highest levels,» Tierney said, his remark sounding much like one delivered by his colleague in opening statements March 14 in the same Central Islip courtroom.
In its decision regarding Silver's case, the appeals court ruled in 2017 that the definition of official corruption provided to the jurors differed from the one used by the U.S. Supreme Court when it overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, and so it was possible the jury could have ruled differently had it been instructed on the updated definition of the law.
``... By October when we start moving to court with some of the cases, Ghanaians will know that we are serious and we are ready to fight corruption as a canker in this country and uproot it once and for all.»
Judge Caproni, in her decision, did not say she thought Silver's case was closely related to McDonnell's, but did concede that the way jurors were told to define «official acts» in corruption cases could be questioned by a higher court, in light of the McDonnell case.
The case, now being deliberated by a jury, is one of the first major public corruption trials in New York since a landmark 2016 Supreme Court ruling significantly narrowed the definition of what actually constitutes public corruption.
Adds the criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance or of a controlled substance by a practitioner or pharmacist as a designated offense for purposes of obtaining eavesdropping warrants as well as adding the offense as a criminal act for the purposes of prosecuting enterprise corruption cases.
Environmental groups and advocates are cheering the decision by state environmental officials to deny permits for the Millennium Pipeline to connect to a Hudson Valley power plant that is playing a supporting role in the corruption case against former gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco.
Part of the swirling corruption case unveiled by Bharara on Thursday that also included several one - time close associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Kaloyeros pleaded «not guilty.»
The use of LLC's by a real estate company Glenwood Management, and it's billionaire CEO Leonard Litwin, has factored in to high profile federal corruption cases against the two former leaders of the legislature.
He added: «The Silver case is right at the fault line for some of the difficult questions that have been raised by the courts about what exactly constitutes public corruption.»
Others surmise that the investigation stems from the Buffalo Billion case, which snared three executives of the LPCiminelli Co. on bid rigging and other corruption charges stemming from a statewide case launched by then - Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
«The suspension follows the establishment of a prima facie case against the four Justices, by the Committee set up by the Chief Justice to investigate alleged acts of bribery and corruption against certain persons, including the four Justices, as contained in the 29th August, 2015 petition of Mr. Anas Aremeyaw Anas,» the statement said.
He said, «Corruption is not an ethnic thing, there is an equal representation in the stealing as no one operates with his or her ethnic group alone, the culprits are in every case seen so far, united by greed to steal and not by ethnic or religious interest.»
«By Jonathan's defence of Sambo Dasuki, we believe time has come for the security agencies to pick up Jonathan to tell the nation all that he knows of the many cases of corruption that happened under him.»
Republicans are counting on a weariness of Cuomo after two terms, as well as any damage to his reputation brought as a former top aide and confidant is being investigated by the U.S. attorney's office in a corruption case involving some of Cuomo's high - profile economic development projects.
The bill comes after officials, including Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who were arrested in federal corruption cases, tapped their campaign funds to pay for their defense, as is allowed by law.
According to the New York Times, the two cases have had a «chilling effect in the Capitol,» with lawmakers afraid to do much legislating for fear that what they consider «business as usual» will be interpreted as corruption by investigators.
«The exhibit as a whole may be interpreted by potential jurors as the Court's celebration of criminal convictions in significant cases, and particularly cases involving allegations of public corruption,» said the letter filed by Daniel Gitner, a lawyer for former energy company executive Peter Kelly, a co-defendant.
In case you missed this steamy tale from the corruption trial of CM Larry Seabrook as told by the NY Post, I reprinted it below.
Silver's 2015 conviction on corruption charges was overturned last month by a federal appeals court, which remanded the case back to a lower court for retrial.
«We also urge your government shouldurgently propose legislation that would characterise the kind of corruption allegedly committed by Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke as crime against humanity within our national laws, and thus allow Nigerian courts to directly hear those cases.»
We write in our capacity as citizens of the Republic of Ghana invoking the powers of this Commission under Article 218 (a) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and section 7 (1)(i) of the CHRAJ Act 1993 (Act 456), as amended, which states «to investigate complaints of violations of fundamental rights and freedoms, injustice, corruption, abuse of power and unfair treatment of any person by a public officer in the exercise of his official duties», to investigate a case of professional misconduct bothering on official corruption and corruption - related activities involving ACP Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, the current acting Director - General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
«The forfeitures the Nigerian people have been awarded against Diezani, the pending and on - going corruption investigations and cases, are a testimony that this woman, who was elevated to the status of a goddess by ex-President Jonathan, has cases to answer, from UK to USA, Italy to the Caribbean.
Both agencies acted with official city and state misconduct, and in both cases, honest, credible evidence was repeatedly dismissed and ignored, and so was the corruption that remains to date — where knowingly false statements were made to discredit me (then later completely reversed during oral argument by my accusers), and both the DOI investigators (who appeared at my doorstep many times to collect evidence) and MTA Office of the Inspector General investigators invited me back to their headquarters (more than six times), from 1989 to 2008), and continued to take no action to restore and reinstate my city job, pension and social security contributions.
«He understands how abuse of power undermines our democracy and has made it a top priority to uphold the integrity of our government by removing bad actors, bringing corruption cases against 40 New York public officials,» she wrote of Schneiderman.
Not this year, thanks to the corruption cases brought successfully against two former top legislative leaders by US Attorney Preet Bharara.
The push by a JCOPE commissioner appointed by Silver to legislators applying for exemptions from new financial disclosure rules — passed in the wake of Silver's corruption indictment earlier this year — to submit the paperwork seeking exemptions by hand, in person, and not just by email, could weaken future corruption cases.